Lulzsec Hacks Sony for 6th Time, Uploads Data to Pirate Bay

LulzSec, aka the Lulz Boat, is at it again hacking Sony for the sixth time in as many days, this time releasing 54MB of Sony Computer Entertainment Developer Network source code and maps of Sony BMG’s internal network.

Dubbed “Sowngae 2″ in a bit of tongue in cheek, Lulzsec uploaded the data to Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay just as it did the previous data (Sownage 1) it obtained from Sony less than a week prior. Earlier this month Lulzsec hacked Sony Pictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users’ personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts.

From The Pirate Bay posting:

Konichiwa from LulzSec, Sony bastards!

We’ve recently bought a copy of this great new game called ‘Hackers vs Sony’, but we’re unable to play it online due to PSN being obliterated. So we decided to play offline mode for a while and got quite a few trophies.

Lulzsec is the same outfit that stole The X-Factor’s contestant database from Fox.com early last month, and the more recent hacking of PBS in retaliation for a Frontline WikiLeaks Documentary it believed maligned the infamous “whistleblower” site.

The news is the latest headache for Sony as it continues to battle with network security issues after April’s shutdown of its PlayStation Network following an network intrusion by unidentified individuals reportedly associated with the Anonymous hacktivist group.